cold chisel
nounEtymology So called because it was used for cutting cold metal, as distinguished from a blacksmith's chisel for cutting hot iron.
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A narrow chisel, made of hardened, tempered steel, used for cutting stone etc.
- Meanwhile, Macpherson stood just outside the door, holding a cold chisel which he had taken from a dungaree pocket […] and there Mr. Willison found him.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 2, in Well Tackled!: